What's happened to manners these days?

Originally Posted by Lozzo

Which is the proper way to filter in at a lane closure. It's pointless everyone filtering in together miles back, because all that does is extend the tailback further behind the roadworks.

What really bugs me are the simple minded truck drivers, and some car drivers, who hog the outside lane preventing anyone from filtering close to the cones. Who made them police officers for the day, or are they living out fantasies after having failed the aptitude test to become a traffic warden? I had one of these the other week, so I put two wheels up the central reservation and overtook him whilst making sure he saw I'd awarded him the order of the rigid digit. I took the number of his firm from the side of the van then called his boss and said he'd been driving like a w4nker.

My hero.

Originally Posted by joshmac

Thanks for that mate. Really pi*ses me off sometimes when that happens

Were all yobs aparantly..

New word for the younger generation..

Media/press induced.

Agree with WB, my dad and mum used to give me a whack if I was being a *****, they still do.

[dizzyblonde]

Originally Posted by Milky Bar Kid

Was out for a meal the other night and noticed the difference in children. I am only 22 but when I was a child, my brother and I would go out with my parents and grandparents and have meals. We were always immaculate and our manners impeccable. The kids these days are screaming, running around under peoples feet and generally showing a lack of basic manners. No please, no thank you.

I can't stand this either. If my son did that he'd get a good clip round the earhole, or his backside whooped, and I really don't care who is watching, or who of you don't like that discipline. I bring my son up in the same way as my parents did with us kids. I am not ashamed to discipline my child, nor teach him right from wrong or indeed manners. At school all the teachers love him to pieces, as hes one of the very few that are a joy to teach and mind their Ps and Qs. It is indeed a dying thing these days to see well mannered kids, and it shows with the slightly older generation of chavvy gobby yobs with tracky bottoms pushed in their socks....well it does round here at least.

Originally Posted by dirtydog

young whippersnapper



You still have baffles in your can? You wierdo!

My dad uses that word

+1, how odd

[jamesterror]

Originally Posted by dirtydog

Ah I see so the parents aren't meant to discipline their children, it's all downto the schools.

Bit of a late response to my comment after you quoted, but when in full time education 6 - 8 hours a day at school I'm sure schools do play a key role during term time?

Originally Posted by jamesterror

Bit of a late response to my comment after you quoted, but when in full time education 6 - 8 hours a day at school I'm sure schools do play a key role during term time?

Yeah but if someone's parents haven't taught them good manners they're just going to stick two fingers up (so to speak) and be rude if a teacher tells them to do something they don't like..

[jamesterror]

Originally Posted by joshmac

Yeah but if someone's parents haven't taught them good manners they're just going to stick two fingers up (so to speak) and be rude if a teacher tells them to do something they don't like..

Yeah I guess, but I'm sure aspects of manners and respect should be influenced within schools.

The schools I went to were made up of middle-class folk, and were all fairly respectable probably why I see it as an aspect which could be encouraged and taught in schools, but guess its more of a parents influence.

[Wideboy]

i have no problem with bikes filtering and even move out of the way to give them more room, the fact that car drivers get annoyed at filtering is laughable, its the "well i cant do it so why should he/she" mentality. I always filter to the front of ques/junctions/lights/ect even if im not in a rush simply because i can and the cage driver would do exactly the same as me if they were sat on 2 wheels, so why would he/she in a car get annoyed, even if he/she in the car is sat at the front of the junction, by the time they've gone into 1st or lifted the clutch the bike is already past the junction and on its way.

I've been thinking about this manners thing, and filtering...the problem is, it's just someone's opinion. I think I need to take the approach that there needs to be justification as to why it is bad manners - if I filter past a car, in front of him at the lights, what impact does it have to them? I "jumped the queue", but if that won't change anything apart from their perception (i.e. they will arrive at the same time, etc), there is no justification (IMO).

I guess this approach could apply to loads of different scenarios.

Originally Posted by madness

Earlier today I was in the checkout queue at the supermarket. It was a fairly long one as only one checkout seemed to be working. There I was, waiting my turn, when 3 youths walked straight to the front of the queue, pushed in, paid for their stuff and left. The lass on the till did nothing, she probably didn't want any trouble. The old couple at the front of the queue also did nothing, presumably for the same reason. When I realised what the youths had done I was bl**dy annoyed, as were the majority of the queue. Everyone was muttering under their breath. Is there really any need for behaviour like this, nobody likes queuing, but this was just bad manners.

personally i would have farted in their faces then chucked olives all over then ..... finishing off with a smack in the face, knee in the nads !! can't stand them !!!!!